Canadian Water Service

POPULATION:

On July 1, 2013, Canada's population was estimated at 35,158,300, up 404,000 upraise the last year, which was equal to the one noted from July 1, 2011, to July 1, 2012, and for the last 30 years similar to the average annual gains.

The population growth except for the period between 1986 and 1990, rate has shown little variation in 30 years ranging from 0.8% to 1.2%. Population estimates released today are now based on the 2011 Census counts adjusted for census net under coverage and incompletely enumerated Indian reserves.

For the year ending June 30, 2013, population growth was higher in the Western provinces, while generally lower in the Atlantic Provinces and negative in Nova Scotia (-0.5%) Population growth surpass the national level by plus 1.2 per hundred, in Alberta plus 3.4 per hundred, in Nunavut plus 2.5 per hundred and Saskatchewan plus 1.9 per hundred.

In Alberta high growth explained through record levels of international migration and interprovincial migration to the province. A low natural increase and interprovincial migration losses, which reached a six-year high, explain low growth in the Atlantic Provinces.

INCOME LEVEL:

In 2012, the Gross Domestic Product per capita in Canada was last recorded at 35992.10 US dollars. GDP per capita in Canada is, reported by the World Bank, equivalent to 291 percent of the world's average. Average Canada GDP per capita from 1960 until 2012 was 25160.4 USD. In December of 2007, Canada GDP per capita was reaching an all-time high of 36182.9 USD and a record low of 12931.4 USD in December of 1960. The GDP per capita is obtained by dividing the country’s gross domestic product, adjusted by inflation, by the total population.

Canada’s Economic Structure

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...for Canadian Drinking Water Quality within their jurisdiction provincial water authorities are responsible. In order to provide a clean, safe, reliable drinking water supply to municipalities, the guidelines intend the basic parameters that each water system (public, semi-public, and private) should aim to achieve. Furthermore to the federal guidelines, provincial and territorial water authorities impose water quality and drinking water standards. For ensuring provincial water quality regulations municipal water utilities are responsible and objectives are being met. To safeguard drinking water supplies more stringent water quality regulations have been enacted, and the costs of keeping water quality standards have risen considerably. As an example, the capital costs were estimated at over $800 million for meeting Ontario’s regulatory water quality requirements.